How to Install XBMC 13.0 Gotham in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

This tutorial will describes how to installing XBMC 13.0 in ubuntu 14.04 LTS and derivatives. As we know, XBMC 13.0 with codename “Gotham” was released, in this release we will find many improvements, updates and fixes as:

Hardware decoding on Android for both ARM and x86 architectures (requires Android 4.0+);

Speed improvements for Raspberry Pi and Android;

Support for 3D movies encoded in the following formats: SBS, TAB, anaglyph, and interlaced (on supported platforms for passive TVs);

Improved UPnP: instances of XBMC throughout the house can now “speak” with each other and with other UPnP devices. Support now includes more advanced library browsing as well as “Play using…” functions, allowing XBMC to tell another device on the network to play a certain media file;

The Audio Engine introduced with XBMC 12.0 “Frodo” has been reworked to be simpler, faster, with better quality and less likelihood of breaking in XBMC 13 across all platforms;

Install XBMC 13.0 Gotham in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Derivatives

To installing latest version of XBMC 13.0 Gotham you need add the official ppa xbmc on you system. In addition to supporting the latest version of ubuntu (Ubuntu 14.04), the ppa also support previous version of ubuntu such as Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 13.10 and derivatives. Open terminal, then type the following command:

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